More and more cemeteries are going with flat-to-the ground headstones. They are more economical to create and it’s easier to maintain the landscaping around them.
But they sink into the soil beneath them.
And grass grows over them.
And the names are lost to us, sometimes forever.
Every fall when we visit the final resting place of my 2nd great-grandparents, we have to dig out their headstone.
This is their neighbor to the left after just one year:
And their neighbor to the right? Completely underground:
So sad; headstones – and the genealogical information they contain – lost to future generations because time buried them underground.
where2look4ancestors 
Leave a reply to Bernadette Budz Cancel reply